February 2020
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Secrets and Lies- Oglet Shore
An excerpt from The Morning After In one sense, Macca was right, the area had changed. Speke park, a green space in the middle of the estate had been built over. A supermarket, library and administration centre now stood in its place. The cynical bastards did keep the name thought Vinny, the whole area was Continue reading
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The ebb and flow.
I’m back in Liverpool this week revisiting old friends and haunts. On the second day here I had to find the office of a publisher. It was cold and wet. I was walking the streets of the ‘Baltic Triangle’. This is a part of Liverpool between the town centre and The Dingle. Old warehouses and Continue reading
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Where can I buy your books?
Is a frequent question – a nice one to hear, but also a little frustrating. Is it worth waiting? Read below and tell me what you think. Robert Turley has written a moving and interesting memoir about a family tragedy in Canada and his relocation to Liverpool, the original home of his father. He records Continue reading
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Oglet to The Glass Bottle Shore
From the coming novel The Morning After- leave your email for updates and more Friday June 23rd 1981 Friday 11am to 12pm The kid was scrambling back up the slope. Sammo had stepped out and started moving toward him. “Sammo,” Macca shouted. “Wait. What are you doing?” Vinny and Macca watched Sammo as he started Continue reading
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Run for your life.
Well, I’d rather see you dead, little girlThan to be with another man The first two lines of this Beatles song make clear the subject and the writer’s view. There can be no doubt that the song accepts violence against women as the norm. This is from a time when women and children were seen Continue reading
About Me
Thanks for visiting my page. The aim of this page is to let you know what I am working on and allow you to tell me what you think.
I was born and raised in Speke Liverpool, although my parents first lived ‘Under The Bridge’ in Garston, and all my family goes back to Wicklow in Ireland.
The Liverpool Mystery series will be four novels, three books; Under The Bridge, The Morning After, and Fire Next Time are finished. Under The Bridge will be published in Feb 2021 and I hope at least one more will follow later in the year. I am writing The Wicklow Boys now, and I hope to finish it next year.
My writing like my blog is about the lives of working people and how they relate to society as a whole.
My collection of short stories The One Road is available below click to see details.
Jack Byrne 